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Subject: 18.11.9 (LTS) patches review and test

Hi all,

Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 18.11.9.

The planned date for the final release is 3rd July.

Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report any
issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release the fixes and
reported validations will be added to the release notes.

We ran the following tests on Mellanox hardware for this version:
- Basic functionality:
  Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
- testpmd xstats counter tests.
- testpmd timestamp tests.
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
- RTE flow and flow_director tests:
  Items: eth / vlan / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / gre
  Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag
- Some RSS tests.
- VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype tests.
- l3fwd-power example application tests.
- Multi-process example applications tests.

Testing matrix:
- NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.0-2.1.8.0 / Firmware: 14.27.1016
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.0-2.1.8.0 / Firmware: 16.27.2008

We found 2 issues:
- Failure to restart ports with kernels newer than 5.6 (call to mmap failed on UAR for txq).
- Applications fail to start with CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_DEBUG enabled (mlx5_ifindex: Assertion `priv->if_index' failed).
We are discussing these issues internally, and we see no other regressions blocking the release.

Regards,
Ali